This Rochester Avenue bridge over Ralston Creek, pictured earlier this year, is the most structurally deficient span in the county. It is set to be replaced next summer.

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Josh O?Leary
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

A small but highly traveled Iowa City bridge, which inspection records show is the most structurally deficient span in Johnson County, will soon be replaced.

The Iowa City Council at a meeting last week gave city staff the nod to acquire $21,065 in property needed to tear down and reconstruct the Rochester Avenue bridge that crosses Ralston Creek between Montrose Avenue and Parsons Avenue.

The two-lane, 40-foot-long bridge, which has a detached 5-foot-wide sidewalk on the southside, has by far the worst structural sufficiency rating of the 360 bridges in Johnson County, a Press-Citizen ...